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Rosa DeLauro: “The beneficiaries of the estate tax are the richest 1 percent of the people in this Nation.”

On the recordDecember 8, 2009
The beneficiaries of the estate tax are the richest 1 percent of the people in this Nation.
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Rosa DeLauro
Democratic · Connecticut

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DeLauro criticizes the estate tax bill's impact on the deficit and its benefits to the wealthy.

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